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On Thresholds
Reading the edge of legibility in Lena Mara's painting — and what it asks of the person standing in front of it.
24 July 2026 · Fardokht Gorouhi · 2 min read
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The Surface and the Hand
On labour, time and the dyed cloth in Amira Haddad's textiles.
18 Jul 2026 · 1 min read
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Slowness as Method
How Sofia Marchetti's moving image teaches the eye to doubt what it has already decided it saw.
12 Jul 2026 · 1 min read
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Interview
In conversation with Tomas Reyes
In Conversation with Tomas Reyes
The sculptor on found industry, repair, and giving a dead machine a second life.
6 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
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Interview
In conversation with Kwame Osei
Kwame Osei on Maps That Don't Resolve
Drawing systems for places that could not quite exist — and breaking them on purpose.
30 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
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Interview
In conversation with Jonas Vetter
Jonas Vetter at the City's Edge
Photographing the seams where infrastructure meets weather, and waiting for nothing to happen.
24 Jun 2026 · 1 min read
- Research Working Papers Material Intelligence Makers of dyed and woven work describe their material decisions as cognitive ones. This paper takes that claim seriously and asks what follows for how such work is catalogued, valued and shown. 18 Jun 2026 · 3 min read
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The Economics of Attention
If attention is the scarce resource of the moment, what does it mean to sell work that asks for more of it rather than less? A short paper on slow looking and the market.
12 Jun 2026 · 2 min read
- Research Working Papers Provenance and the Digital Viewing Room The online presentation promised access. It also quietly changed where a work's record begins — and who is responsible for keeping it. 6 Jun 2026 · 1 min read
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Catalogue
The Weight of Light
Essays and plates from the Lyon exhibition.
31 May 2026 · 1 min read
- Note A Note on Site Working in the 13e: the neighbourhood is not a backdrop. 25 May 2026 · 1 min
- Note Notes on Hanging Six rules I keep breaking, and the one I don't. 19 May 2026 · 1 min
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